Written by

Kevin Phelan
| kphelan@lohud.com

If you believe movies like "The Conjuring" and the "Paranormal Activity" series, you might imagine paranormal investigators as fearless ghost hunters, ready and willing to battle legions of malevolent spirits armed with little more than a few ancient books, a Ouija board and some pseudo-scientific contraptions.

But just how accurate are those portrayals? Is the life of a real paranormal investigator like those we see in films and television? Not according to Mitch Silverstein, founder and lead investigator for Nyack Paranormal Investigations (NPI), a nonprofit that aims to use ...